Cover for frying-pans



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Nrrsnl STATES PATENT Ormea MARY E. RADIOK, OF WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK.

COVER FOR FRYINGfPANS, 80C.

' SPECIFICATION formngpart ofl Letters Patent No. 517,708, dated April 3, 1894. v

W Application filed January 10, 1894. Serial No.'496.397. (No model.)y

' -To a/Z whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARY E. RADICK, of White Plains, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Cover for Frying-Pans land Like Culinary Vessels, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. g

In the culinary operation of broiling, frying or otherwise cooking with fat in afrying pan or like vessel, or upon a gridirou, when a cover is not employed, grease frequently escapes from the Vessel and soils the top of the stove, the door and the garments of the cook or the persons near by, and when the ordinary cover is usedto confine the grease to the pan the contents of said pan are subject to the action of steam arising from the vaporization of the juices of the article being cooked. The confined steam, in many cases, is either detrimental to the article being cooked or retards and injures the cooking. Furthermore, in the act of lifting up the old form of cover from a cooking vessel the water or grease adhering to the inside surface of the cover at once runs downward to the lower edge of the cover, where it collects into the form of an offensive stream or drip, which falls upon the stove or other object toward which the cover is directed.

The object of my invention is to provide a cover adapted for use with various culinary vessels, and so constructed that when it is A removed from the vessel all-drip from the Ywhereby all smoke and odors from the cooking will be carried up chimney and not -allowed to escape into theapartment. I also seek to so locate the handle of the cover that said cover may be lifted from the vessel without injury to the hand.

Theinvention' consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as

will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the ligures.

' Figure 1 presents a perspective view of a fryingpan and the improved cover applied thereto. F'ig. 2 is a vertical section taken through the pan and vits cover at a point near their centers; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the cover in an inverted position.

In the example of the invention shown in tlre drawings, the vessel A represented is a frying pan of ordinary construction. The cover B is made to fit over the top of the fry# ing pan or vessel, and said cover is provided with the usual pendent flange b,which iiange is inwardly and upwardly curved at its lower end, forming thereby a continuous gutter or channel h". In forming the gutter or channel the flange is preferably curved in a gradual manner, as illustrated in Fig. 2. Ordi-- narily the flange b isof such depth ythat the gutter or channel Vb will be located nearthe/ bottom of the pan or vessel when the cover is applied thereto.

The gutter or channel b has two functions; primarily the gutter is adapted to receive and retain whatever-grease or other matter or particles may condense or lodge upon the inner surface of the cover, thus preventing the said condensations from dripping from the cover when the latter is lifted `from the pan, or when it is placed upon a convenient support. The secondary function of the gutter or channel is that its conveXed under surface forms a firm bearing for the cover when.

is secured, said handle being represented in roe the escape of steam from the interior of the pan or vessel when the latter is closed by the cover, thus improving the cooking of the article contained in the vessel, by preventing the access of air While the escape of said steam is permitted. By omitting the apertures from the coverin thespace adjacent to the handle D the latter may be grasped and removed when the cover is in position upon l I claim as new and desire to secu re by Letters the vessel, without danger of the hand being burned' or scalded by the escaping steam. The shape of the cover may be varied to correspond to the shape of the vessel upon which it is employed.

A cover of the construction above set; forth may beused with good results in the process of broiling with a gridiron. In this case the bottom of the gridiron is exposed to the fire throughttheiusual-opening of the stove, and i When= my: improved cover is placed over theA gridiron and its contents, `there will be adraft a of air. downthnouglr the perforations in the cover into and through the fire to the chimney, and thus all vapors, fumes and odors will be carried up chimney and prevented from escaping into the apartment. At the same time any iiying grease, water or condensations that collect upon` the inside of i the cover will be collected in the gutter thereof and all drip prevented, as before described. Having thus fully described my invention,

Patent- A cover for frying pans, gridirons and like culinary vessels, provided with a pendent flange which is upwardly and inwardly curved at its lower edge, forming a groove or channel for the reception of matter Whichimay run from theV inner face of the cover, substantially as shown and described.

MAiR' E. RADIGK.

Witnesses:

C. SEDGWICK, F. W. HANAEORD.V 

